Ninety-seven fans were unlawfully killed as a result of the disaster that occurred at the FA Cup semi-final against Nottingham Forest on April 15, 1989.<\/p>\n
In remembrance, the head coaches and captains of the Reds\u2019 men\u2019s, women\u2019s, U21s and U18s teams visited the Hillsborough Memorial at Anfield to lay wreaths.<\/p>\n
So too did club officials, including CEO Billy Hogan, Sir Kenny Dalglish and ambassadors Ian Rush and Natasha Dowie.<\/p>\n
Members of Liverpool\u2019s men\u2019s squad and coaching staff also paid their respects at the Hillsborough Memorial at the AXA Training Centre.<\/p>\n
Flags were flown at half-mast at club sites and tributes took place elsewhere across the city.<\/p>\n
At 3.06pm, the time at which the match in 1989 was halted, the club observed a period of silence in honour of the 97.<\/p>\n
Ninety-seven biodegradable balloons were subsequently released from the centre-circle at Anfield in a poignant act of remembrance.<\/p>\n
The Anfield retail store closed at 1pm, while the LFC Museum and stadium tours ceased operations at the same time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ninety-seven fans were unlawfully killed as a result of the disaster that occurred at the FA Cup semi-final…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[1720,1721,1708,1716,1710,1722,1724,1723,1711,1715,1714,1709,1719,1712,1717,403,99,1713,1718],"class_list":{"0":"post-586243","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-alisson","9":"tag-firmino","10":"tag-homepage","11":"tag-klopp","12":"tag-lfc","13":"tag-lfc-news","14":"tag-lfctv","15":"tag-lfctv-go","16":"tag-liverpool-fc","17":"tag-liverpool-fc-match","18":"tag-liverpool-fc-news","19":"tag-liverpool-football-club","20":"tag-mane","21":"tag-reds","22":"tag-salah","23":"tag-soccer","24":"tag-sports","25":"tag-the-reds","26":"tag-van-dijk"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}